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Matt vs. Japan on How to Master Japanese Through Immersion, Learn Kanji & Nail Your Accent

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Dopamine in a Foreign Language

I think the more interested in it, you are the more above your current level you can tolerate or manage. I will deal with that ambiguity and certainty to get through it. If all your enjoyment is just the plot itself, then it's not going to be a very fulfilling experience because it's just going to feel like a worse version of what you could be having in English. So instead, if you think of it more like a problem solving experience or like a puzzle solving experience where your every sentence is a puzzle that you're trying to solve... Then each sentence you understand can be a dopamine boost.

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